Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears? — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire Copy Share Image
“We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream” — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
“Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
“To awaken is not to reject the dream. It is to become lucid within it, and know that we are not the… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the… — Emha Ainun Nadjib Copy Share Image
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“This moment of lucidity does not last long. But it serves as the punishment for your sins, a Promethean entrails-pecking moment, crouching… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
